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Sunday, December 18, 2011

AZMEX I3 18-12-11

AZMEX I3 18 DEC 2011

Note: While usually doing a better job than their counter parts in the US lame-stream media, the Mexican media have their own problems with honest reporting. For example they consistently refuse to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration, unless it's to Mexico. They also almost never report that on this side of the border, it's other Mexicans leaving them to die in the desert, beating, murdering, raping, robbing, extorting and abusing them. The opposition to illegal immigration, does not for the vast majority of us, from observation over many years, extend to legal immigration. "The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that although there is no exact figure is estimated that each year about 150,000 illegal immigrants enter the country through its southern border."

Migrants: changing routes, following the tragedyExtortion, theft, abuse, kidnapping (individual or group) are moved to the states in the center of the country that were not traditionally "hot spots", say civil society organizations

THREAT. Under the International Migrants Day, men and women, minors, Central Americans and Mexicans face an increasingly difficult ordeal to leave their communities of origin to the United States (Photo: UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE)

Abductions and disappearances of migrants persist, only changed risk areas. A route that covers the center of the country, comprising six states and the State of Mexico to Coahuila is now "highly" dangerous for those trying to cross the border. It has become the new organized crime scene where, in recent months, increased crimes against the migrants, warn managers of hostels in the country.

"They're still exposed to countless humiliations, including kidnapping (...) are also continuing abuses of the authorities," involved in 8.9% of the 200 groups documented cases of plagiarism by the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) "said Fernando Batista, fifth visitor of the body, who anticipates that already includes a record to see if it has sanctioned the staff involved in the National Migration Institute (INM).

Those who avoid the dangers to cross into the United States now pay higher costs to $ 11,000, (US) and no guarantee that they will not be abandoned by smugglers or also intercepted by criminals on the "other side" of the border.

Discrimination, raids, prosecution and deportation expected in the U.S. for illegal immigrants and residents alike with an anti-migrant environment is expanding rapidly, recognizes Enrique Morones, director of the Border Angels.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that in states like Alabama, before the application of a racist law has gone so far as to deny access to services like water and housing to non-legal residents, and those violating these prohibitions involve being taken to prison.

Under the IMD this is the case that men and women, minors, Central Americans and Mexicans face when leaving their home communities to the United States.

Latent danger

The slaughter of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, in August 2010, in which 72 migrants were killed by the cartel Los Zetas, a phenomenon that became visible in charge of civil defense shelters and had reported months ago.

Warn that organized crime groups are operating in a similar way in other parts of the country. They moved to states that were not traditionally hot spots in which they abuse, rob, extort and kidnap individually or collectively the illegal immigrants and nationals.

State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Coahuila make up the new theater of operations of criminal organizations in which, from September to date have carried out abductions and disappearances that local and federal authorities have dismissed.

Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, coordinator of Human Mobility Pastoral Mexican Bishops, who runs the lodge Brothers in the Way, in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, Father Pedro Pantoja, of Belen Posada del Migrante in Saltillo, Coahuila, and the priest Prisciliano Peraza Garcia, Community Center for Migrants and Needy in Altar, Sonora, detailing new areas of influence through which organized crime operates.

Lecheria and Huehuetoca, State of Mexico, is a risk area, where migrants have been killed in recent months.

In general, the state is a center of organized crime operation that has targeted the undocumented, is the beginning of a route through Tlaxcala, where Apizaco is also a place of extortion.

Hidalgo is the federal entity in which, on 20 November, 12 migrants were kidnapped and to date their whereabouts are unknown, says Solalinde. The population of Irol in Tepeapulco municipality where the acts were perpetrated today is a risk point.

San Luis Potosi, considered zeta territory is also a place where kidnappings have been reported and thefts, while Celaya and Irapuato, Guanajuato, also part of this map that have been reported kidnappings of migrants, reaching Saltillo, Coahuila, where trafficking networks serving cartels decide who can cross or not to the United States who fail to raise up to $ 11,000 now charged, are held in safe houses until their relatives gather the funds.

Although father Solalinde warns that most concern are the zones of Mexico and Coahuila State, "there are kidnappings, have not stopped, there is still mass kidnappings," among other crimes. In the area of ​​Lecheria Mexico State Oct. 13 the corpse of the Honduran Maria Marisol Ortiz Hernandez, the same area where, in August, found the body of the Guatemalan Julio Fernando Cardona Augustine, beaten to death near the San Juan Diego shelter.

It is necessary for federal and local authorities do not dismiss cases that are occurring in these institutions, the priests interviewed agreed to avoid the security crisis and systematic human rights violations of migrants who have lived in Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Chiapas and Oaxaca, where Solalinde recognized a decrease in the incidence of cases by the actions of the Army and the Navy Department.

The Institute, under the microscope

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that although there is no exact figure is estimated that each year about 150,000 illegal immigrants enter the country through its southern border. It is this sector which in recent years has been the target of organized crime on their way through Mexican territory.

The special report of the NHRC on the hijacking of migrants reveals that only between April and September 2010 were reported at least 214 mass abductions with 11,333 victims.

And the list goes, the body recognizes the visitor Fernando Batista Jimenez. Indicates that the job of government is now generating a diagnosis and a proprietary database and updated information about these crimes with a specific purpose: "To be in the future prevent such acts," but also that the cases must not go unpunished and combat corruption that remains in this phenomenon.

The National Commission for Human Rights documented that in the kidnappings of migrants, 8.9% of cases, "the evidence tell the collusion of some authority in the criminal event participation and sometimes refer to agents of the National Migration Institute ".

Therefore, the national body officially opened a file to officially document the steps taken by the INM to punish the penal and administrative public servants linked to the crimes and violations of human rights of undocumented immigrants.

He explains that "we are asking the INM, the Internal Control Body under the Ministry of Public Service, information on all cases in which at the request of the National Commission or otherwise has established an administrative procedure to verify effectively if there has been appropriate sanctions. "

Batista Jimenez warns that "the issue of corruption is certainly important, because we think we are documenting the INM itself must disclose transparently in all these cases what sanctions have been effective, what happened to these officers public involved in the incidents for which the CNDH has seen or presented a criminal complaint. "

Notes that it has received from the National Migration Institute incomplete, so the Commission requested extensions to document each case and establish what is the status of investigations.

That same year, forward, will be made with the municipal police, the Federal Police and the claims which includes the Attorney General's Office (PGR) to provide an overview of society point to it.

Criminalized

The U.S. Census 2010 indicates that Hispanics represent 16.3% of the population with 50.5 million people.

About 11.6 million immigrants from Mexico, which means that almost one in three is Mexican According to the Pew Hispanic Center.

Despite these figures, Enrique Morones, head of the Border Angels, said that the anti-immigrant sentiment has exploded, worse still, at present election, the Republicans managed a speech that "is causing more hatred against our community" as it is responsible this sector job losses, the economic crisis.

"With or without papers, we treated the same as if we were criminals," he charged. The existence of anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah, despite not being fully implemented and to be in litigation before courts have led to not only pursue non-legal residents, all are suspected of being undocumented and even their children or partners, who have U.S. citizenship, suffer its effects.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) recorded only in January this year there were 600 bills in state legislatures in the American Union similar to the 1070 Arizona or with different nuances, but all criminalize migration, have a racist and denied basic services like housing, water, saud, edución and work.

In addition, the U.S. government has tightened its immigration policy, and who will be punished crossing as undocumented, for committing a crime, warned last September Alan Bersin, Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in an interview with El Universal.

Data from the National Migration Institute show that between January 2010 and October 2011 were repatriated from the U.S. to Mexico 350,868 nationals from more than 400,000 deported by the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) , which is the largest in the history of the agency. This figure includes 8,197 Mexican children deported between January and August this year, according to reports from DIF.

More fear

There are more dangers to be detained in the U.S.. Who cross illegally to this country are victims of kidnapping, robbery and extortion, Commissioner Bersin acknowledged in recent months, "there are more afraid of being abducted or falling prey to organized crime, which also operates here, to die in the desert, "says activist Enrique Morones.

Javier Hernandez Valencia, representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations, said El Universal that Mexico has a "triple lens' to the growing immigration problem: the illegal entry of Central and respect for fundamental rights.

There are no conditions to prevent Mexicans migrate to the United States and those who are there, "whose rights are cut by a speech rights increasingly discriminatory speech , fundamental rights of generations of Mexicans or Mexican citizens."